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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OPTIC_NUT" data-source="post: 3164159" data-attributes="member: 121951">The trend has very strong effects in collectibles.There are many antiques that have plummeted the past 10 years.Many people are liquidating all their silverware and old gold.Main Street is very low on cash, esp if you are older.The younger and semi-skilled have multiple beat jobs.  I notice at the antique store where I run a shelf.Waterford Crystal is a fraction of the highs.Hummels are....well, grit for the driveway. But I don't like that stuff.For the geeks; old slide rules boomed in the hi-tech IPO days (~1995).Now they are often $2-20, not $100--400.Old pretty tube radios held up, but now they are going for peanuts.I should find some cheap storage. But.....designer platinum Deco jewelry, Old Zeiss (when it isn't war-ravaged), and rareold muscle cars are booming.   Yachts over 60ft are booming.My nephew is working on the second carbon-fiber 60mph motor yacht for a wordly client at the little shipyard.  Amazing.I've learned how to locate the old 'sleeper' values on optics and renovate them.Don't know if or when they will go up again, but the best still produce a "WOW!"...you know, a pair that stuns you right away. It's in the eyepieces and baffling and the incredible build quality.Regular folks buy and sell metals week by week....not wiseif deflation comes.  But they are insecure, so they dissipate funds on hedges.At least with binoculars I have the fun that optical addiction brings,and achievments that can't be laid off when they are just right.So....Zeiss and Swaro should ponder excuses to make a few $10,000 compact binoculars, perhaps.</blockquote>

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